Flexible microphone brings better recording to the iPhone

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If you’ve ever tried to take anything besides the most cursory audio recording on your iPhone, you’ll know it’s a low fidelity affair. It works okay when you’re within a hand span of distance from your phone, but quality drops precipitously after that. For most users, that’s not a big deal: the iPhone is, for them, just something to take occasional voice notes upon. But if you’ve ever tried to transcribe an interview or record a live concert with an iPhone, you’ll be very well versed with the built-in microphone’s issues. A microphone lodged behind plastic and only accessible by a pinhole just isn’t up to snuff.

This Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone for the iPhone gives an aftermarket solution for the iPhone. It plugs directly into the headset port, swiveling in any direction for true sonic directionality.

The copy reads, “Voice and video recording on iPhone 3.0 brings iPhone owners to the new mobile multimedia era. Yet, sound quality is not the best. Try out the NEW Flexible mini capsule microphone which is especially designed for new iPhone 3.0. It enables you to record better sound quality. Instead of receiving sound from the iPhone speaker at the bottom, your iPhone can receive sound from any direction.”

Listening to the comparison audio files on the Brando site, it does sound quite a bit better, and looks like it also might make handsfree phone calls a lot higher quality. The Flexible Mini Capsule Microphone works with all models of iPhone, the iPod Touch 2/3G and the iPod Nano 4G, and can be had now for only $14.